IDPs who fled Musharrifah had to walk miles to the point where they would be picked up. Vehicles kicked up clouds of very fine dust on hot cloudless days. Many of the displaced brought no food or water with them.

May 5, 2017

Civilians fleeing battles in Musharrifah, northwest Mosul.

Children who could not travel fast enough were carried.

May 5, 2017

Men help a woman into the back of a covered military transport at Iraqi Army lines in Musharrifah

May 5, 2017

Wounded men talk as they wait for evacuation.

Civilians struggled to cross open ground in front of snipers toward Iraqi Army lines. Those that barely made it waited for humvees or medical vehicles to take them the last several kilometers to the trucks that would take them to the IDP camps.

Musharrifah. May 5, 2017

A woman learns from American and Burmese medics that her son will survive a bullet wound in the leg.

The Free Burma Rangers treated both civilians and soldiers wounded during the battle for northwest Mosul.

May 6, 2017

Justin DeMaranville of the Free Burma Rangers retrieves formula from the roof of the organization's armored ambulance.

This vehicle carries the body of a civilian woman who was shot by an Islamic State sniper and died just meters from this spot. The other women in the woman's group wanted to ride in the ambulance with the body, but there was no room, so they continued walking. Justin made sure they at least had food for their young children.

Musharrifah. May 5, 2017

Civilians queue for food distribution in west Mosul

IDPs receive food aid from the Iraqi military in downtown west Mosul. As the war cut off major streets and bridges, the price of basic necessities skyrocketed. Many civilians still living in Mosul had to rely on the army in order to eat.

April 12, 2017

Civilians receive food aid in west Mosul

Civilians who could not leave, or chose to stay, collect rations from an aid station.

April 12, 2017

West Mosul

April 19, 2017

Scavenging zippers from a bombed out factory in west Mosul

April 8, 2017

IDPs from west Mosul wait near the Tigris River crossing.

When upstream releases from a dam on the Tigris forced the Iraqi military to remove the floating dam, thousands of families were stuck. Some waited days to cross to the other side.

April 19, 2017

IDPs wait to pass a traffic jam over the Tigris River.

When upstream releases from a dam on the Tigris forced the Iraqi military to remove the floating dam, thousands of families were stuck. Some waited days to cross to the other side.